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Most stuff by o'reilly with linux in the title will be good quality. 'Learning Linux' or if you're familiar with computers, 'Running Linux'. I got good mileage out of both.
Yes they are a little expensive. But your OS was free (if you downloaded it). This time though you're investing in your own mental capital (and an open source advocate publisher) instead of lining the pocket of some sta-pressed bankroller in Redmond.
It works like this - there is such a thing as a free lunch. Good Linux books will tell you all about it.
I agree with Bert. My first book was Linux for Dummies by IDG books & I soon found that I needed something more, so I picked up Linux in a nutshell by O'Reilly. It was well worth the money since then I've picked up several more O'Reilly books. They're worth the investment.
This book has a sampling of everything, it explains file systems, user maintenence, backup/recovery, setting up services and best of all it is non-distribution specific. This book has been extremly helpful to me, but so wasn't the RH Systems Admin course that I took... :-)
The best way to learn is to break your system and have to fix it...
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